QUILT INDEX RECORD

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Who documented this quilt?

Michigan Quilt Project

Where are the records for this quilt housed?

Michigan State University Museum

Michigan Quilt Project Number:

86.2162

Owner's name for the quilt:

Storm at Sea

Names for quilt's pattern in common use:

Darting Minnows

Brackman # or other source & #:

1059

When was the form filled out?

12/21/1986

Quilt top made by:

Goehring, Emma Justine

Quilted by:

Goehring, Emma Justine

If you are a relative of the quiltmaker, how are you related? The quiltmaker is my:

Quilt owner

If you are the quilt owner, how did you acquire this quilt?

Inherited

Where the quilt was made, city:

Akron

Where the quilt was made, county:

Summit

Where the quilt was made, state:

Ohio (OH)

Time period:

1901-1929

When was the quilt finished?

1920s

Quiltmaker's gender:

Female

Quiltmaker's city:

Akron

Quiltmaker's state:

Ohio (OH)

Quiltmaker's maiden name:

Highberger

Quiltmaker's birth date:

1865?

Quiltmaker's date and place of death:

1939

Quiltmaker's educational background:

? grade school

Quiltmaker's religious affiliation:

Presbyterian

Quiltmaker's occupation:

Homemaker

Quiltmaker's father's name:

Highberger, ________

Quiltmaker's father's ethnic/tribal background:

German

Quiltmaker's marriage date(s):

1880s

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and /or partner's/partners' name(s):

Goehring, Charles

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' ethnic/tribal background:

German

Quiltmaker's spouse's/spouses' and/or partner's/partners' occupation:

Doctor and manufacturer of wood mouldings

Number of children:

2

How many of the quiltmaker's children were girls?

1

How many of the quiltmaker's children were boys?

1

When did the quiltmaker learn to quilt?

Age 11-19

This is a:

Finished quilt

How wide is the quilt?

82"

How long is the quilt?

82"

Shape of edge:

Straight

Shape of corners:

Straight

Quilt's condition:

Good/moderate use

Describe the quilt's layout:

Block pattern

Number of quilt blocks:

64

Spacing of quilt blocks:

Separated by pieced pattern sashing

Sashing width:

1 3/4"

Number of borders:

3

Describe the borders:

3/4", 3 3/4", 1"

Fiber types used to make the quilt top:

Cotton

Piecing techniques used to make the quilt top:

Machine Piecing

Materials used to make the back:

Cotton

Number of pieces of fabric in the quilt back:

3

How is the binding made?

Straight grain

What is the width of the binding (measure on the top only)?

less than a half inch

What kind of filling is used in the quilt?

Cotton

How are the layers held together?

Hand quilting

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 1:

9

Number of quilting stitches per inch, place 2:

10

Quilting designs used, decorative motifs:

Feathering

Quilting designs used, background fills:

Parallel lines

Describe the quilting designs used:

Scallops

Person filling out this form is:

Quilt owner

Ownership of this quilt is:

Private

Quilt owner's name:

Annegret Goehring

Quilt owner's city:

Hessel

Quilt owner's county:

Mackinac

Quilt owner's state:

Michigan (MI)

How was this quilt acquired?

Inheritance

Access and copyright information:

Restricted

How did the quiltmaker participate in the creation of the quilt?

Made entire quilt

Copyright holder:

Michigan State University Museum